After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that ...
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipula...
Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approx...
War ends nothing.
Without war there can be no peace.
Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.
All is fair in love and war.
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.
To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.
The highest distinction is service to others.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
